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Civil rights protesters in Danville during the summer of 1963.

Court records and recordings from Danville civil rights movement are available online for the first time

by Grace Mamon May 31, 2024June 3, 2024

The Library of Virginia has finished a digitization project that makes these pieces of history easily available to the public. Some of the documents will also be on display next week at a screening of “The Movement” documentary in Richmond.

Members of the 101st Airborne Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division crowd aboard an LCT on the way to Utah Beach, June 6, 1944. Courtesy of National Archives and the National World War 2 Museum.

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Command Group: ‘We cursed, we cried, we laughed’

by Command Group, 1st Battalion May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“Then the ranging fire caught them and cut them down as they tried to cross the sands. Only one-third of the men reached the foot of the slope alive.”

Soldiers come ashore on one of the later waves. Courtesy of National Archives and the National World War 2 Museum.

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Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion: Enemy fire was ‘heavy and almost unceasing’

by Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“For two hours the men burrowed in the sand waiting for the fire to lift.”

Landing craft head for Omaha Beach. Landing began at 6:30 am. Men can be seen wading ashore; their initial objective, the bluffs above the beach. Courtesy of National Archives and the National World War 2 Museum.

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A Company from Bedford: ‘They crumpled as they sprang from the ship’

by A Company May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“Within 20 minutes of striking the beach, ‘A’ had ceased to be an assault company and had become a forlorn little rescue party bent on survival and the saving of lives.”

This is what Omaha Beach looked like on June 7, 1944, the day after initial landings. Courtesy of National Archives and the National World War 2 Museum.

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B Company from Lynchburg: ‘The dead washed up to where they lay and then washed back again’

by B Company May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“He got to the edge of the sand and was there shot to death.”

Without a deepwater port, constant supply and reinforcements were needed to break out of the beachhead. The solution was an artificial harbor built in England and brought to Normandy. Known by the codename “Mulberry,” two of these harbors were designed to unload men and supplies. Thousands of soldiers and sailors were involved in this effort. Spud barges that floated up and down with the tide formed the center of the harbor’s unloading activity. They were joined to the shore by floating roadways known as “Whales.” Courtesy of National Archives and National World War II Museum.

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C Company from Harrisonburg: ‘Despite this serious injury he continued’

by C Company May 31, 2024May 30, 2024

“While in town the men encountered Brigadier General Norman D. Cota who was calmly twirling his pistol on his finger. He said to them, ‘Where the hell have [you] been boys?'”